It wasn’t the first time I used Illustrator, I was familiar with it, but I never created a complete illustration from scratch in Illustrator. It wasn’t very comfortable to keep using the Cintiq tablet anymore, so I started using a mouse. The switch from Photoshop to Illustrator didn’t come alone. The rules were different, the tools were different, and even the interaction was different. First stepsĪt the beginning everything was a bit confusing, I had to adapt my mindset to a new environment. I still used the sketch made in Photoshop as a guide. I decided then to start using Illustrator to creating the illustrations for animations. At the beginning, I kept working with Photoshop and then vectorising the resulting images using Vector Magic and Illustrator.īut after a while, I realized that that system required to invest a substantial amount of time to do the conversion and the results weren’t optimized for the animation process either.

Last year, I started to work with Jose on animations and that required vector illustrations. I developed a solid workflow in Photoshop that allowed me to work for newspapers where you need to work very fast and be effective.

Since I became a professional illustrator, I always used Photoshop as my main drawing app.

Photoshop to illustrator